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Death in Exile. Writing as Writing-Becoming

Summary/Abstract: The paper develops a literary theoretical framework for discussing the relationship between literature and exile, by asserting that discussing exile in literature always calls into question historical and political reality which, as a consequence, treats a given literary text as its product. The first part of the paper critically examines famous assertions by Said, Adorno and Brodsky in order to consider the topos of presumed “exile literature”. The second part focuses on Deleuze’s and Guattari’s term of “minority literature” and Blanchot’s definition of writing as a nexus between exile, death and writing. The third part offers the interpretation of the relationship between literature and exile unburdened by historical facts since the presumption is that writing itself is exile and that exile is writing: the writer is always in exile because the act of writing implies the loss of identity. Finally, if we can talk about exile in a text, it is only in a sense that writing implies exile (this, in turn, gives writing “the identity” which it does not have). The final part offers an analysis of selected prose works by David Albahari, which suggests that what is at first glance detected as exile in literature is denied by itself in the act of writing.

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